2.) 09 Jul 2018 14:58:33
Sadly not Tris. I haven't seen them in shops since I was very young! They do have MAOAM bloxx now though which are very similar and will still rip your teeth out if that's what you are into 😂.

11.) 09 Jul 2018 18:59:20
Gonna show age- used to get sweets for quarter pence. 20p and you were absolutely set. Whole counter from one end of the shop to the other. Think we even used to get Fruit Salads and Blackjacks for 1p

Now- try to relive the olds days and get pick n’ mix at the Cinema- then spend the film time working out how to remortgage the house!

12.) 09 Jul 2018 19:27:42
Lmao agger. So true. Cinema prices kill the romance. 10p mix up were amazing, even though you went through the bag saying. "like these, and these, not these though or those" but still went for mix ups.

My fave though was the old "real" sweet shops, where you had jars of sweets by the 1/ 4. You used to get this chocolate dust that was beautiful.

08 Jun 2018 12:00:38
Well, I'm stuck in hospital, just had a rather unpleasant operation and im bored, so I had a little look on YouTube about our 3 new midfielders. I know YouTube blah blah but I'm bored and I thought I would post my thoughts because ya know, I'm bored.

Fabinho. Impressed me greatly. The two things that stuck out at me was his ability to ping a defence splitting pass, and how when facing opposition attacks, he's in the right position to make a challenge, rather than the Mascherano style legging it 20 yards up the pitch to make a recovery tackle because he's out of position in the first place.
Excellent strength and looks composed. I'm very excited and although I rate Hendo, Fabinho seems an upgrade and I couldn't be more pleased. Tipping this lad for big things.

Keita. Excellent engine, brilliant with the ball at his feet and superb at wriggling around opposition players and keeping the ball. I do worry about his size/ strength but he's got a low centre of gravity which he uses to his advantage, so potentially bulking out would cost him some of that agility? I'm being picky but I didn't want to write a ' everything's perfect ' review because that helps nobody.

Fekir. Clearly extremely talented. Excellent with the ball, although I worry that he'll need to adapt to our style of play. Like Lallana he takes many touches, I did notice it seems that the other Lyon players weren't reading his passes early enough, so there's evidence enough to suggest playing at a slightly higher level will benefit his game, but whereas I think Fabinho and Keita will be excellent at spraying those early passes out to Salah and Mane, I worry slightly that Fekir will slow the play down slightly. However, again I'm just being picky, his dead balls are brilliant and I trust Klopp wholeheartedly. If he wants the boy for £50 million, he rates him highly and that'll do for me.

6.) 08 Jun 2018 12:59:31
Good post mate. I am also just home from a very unpleasant op for a man. Don't want to jump the gun, but am i right in thinking you will be a very happy man. If Fekir deal is announced over next 48 hours Ed001?

3.) 02 Jun 2018 14:22:34
Butland?! Stop it, you wanna pay over the odds for a player relegated with nothing but a losing mentality?
English keepers are short in quality when good goal keepers are not rare at the minute, there's at least 20 top class keepers out there and we do not have one AGAIN when it's about time we did.

5.) 02 Jun 2018 14:41:15
Walter, If Karius had been relegated with Mainz, would you have agreed for us to sign him? If the answer is no (which is the right answer), then why in the heck are we going for Butland who got relegated with Stoke?

6.) 02 Jun 2018 14:50:42
I like Alisson a lot. Great sweeper keeper, very agile and athletic, great distribution, composed on the ball, and usually claims crosses well (despite looking flappy against us) .

He has no major flaws to his game truth be told. He just needs to perfect the skills he is already good at and one day he'll be one of the best in the world in my opinion.

8.) 02 Jun 2018 15:23:46
Allison over Butland any day. However just because he’s in a relegated team doesn’t mean he’s useless, there are worse keepers than him that didn’t get relegated. I believe he made more saves than any other PL keeper last season, obviously because he had more shots at his goal than De Gea had, but as we saw with Allison against us, no matter who’s in goal they won’t save everything.
Hopefully we can get Allison or Oblak - keepers that will push us to next level, if we get Butland I’d be disappointed but will support him nonetheless.

10.) 02 Jun 2018 18:08:17
I will back any player that's dons the shirt. Did I want karius no. Did I support him yes. Butland was not solely responsible for Stoke to be relegated.
Butland gets really poor views on here. The fella is top class in my book needs to catch more than punch, but plenty of quality there.

03 May 2018 08:49:02
Someone posted about superstitions yesterday, well I don't have any as such but I've watched each match of this competition with my 8 year old son.
I've kept him back from his mums for a day, I've let him stay up way too late but not only can I not risk watching the final without him, seeing the range of emotions and the jubilation on his face means watching it with him means more to me than watching it anywhere else, or with anyone else.
Win or lose the final, thank you LFC for the joy you've given my son, and for the father son memories you've created.

2.) 03 May 2018 10:16:19
My son watched the first half with me before his mum took him to bed at half time. Given the difference between half time and full time scores needless to say that won’t happen again!

3.) 03 May 2018 10:57:39
4.45am with me and my two boys 10 &12 downunder. I always remember European nights watching on ITV from 34 years ago as a young teen. Memories never leave you.
God, Liverpool are a great club, you just can’t explain properly to my Aussie work colleagues.

4.) 03 May 2018 11:43:59
JTRed mate, with you all the way. The wife finally gave in around the quarters and allowed my 8 year old to stay up and watch. in a very specific spot on the couch. He's been the lucky charm :)

5.) 02 Apr 2018 00:21:34
If he had come out half a second sooner, he would have had a boot in his face and Zaha would have seen red. It actually wasn’t that different to Mane/ Edinson (? ), apart from Zaha didn’t make contact.

7.) 02 Apr 2018 09:05:57
I agree Salah. We need to be careful always picking at our keepers. The media do enough of that for us!
It was a mistake but not a glaring one. A glaring one would be lloris coming out for a cross and completely missing it for Morata to nod into an empty net but because it’s Hugo Lloris not too much is said.
Karius is doing really well I’ve been impressed with him.

8.) 02 Apr 2018 12:15:25
Spot on, boys. Karius' mistake is NOT a mistake. He made a judgement call and went in full pelt. I'd rather that than a GK who is always caught in two minds and does neither. Apart from that, Karius had a very good game and had it not been for him, the pen would have gotten us 2 down. Let's remember that.

20 May 2018 14:10:43
Brilliant. One question Ed, you mention that in the summer of 2013, Adidas were trying to broker a deal for Messi to leave Nike and join with one of their main clubs, my question is how could the sponsor have that much influence over potential transfers? Especially when the play in question is the most expensive player on the planet. Would they simply approach RM, BM and Chelsea and make a case or is it something else?
Many thanks.

JTRED91

{Ed002's Note - It was a financial influence. Adidas would have profitted from a move to Chelsea for Messi. THe amounts of money Nike and Adidas put in to football is far, far beyond what other sponsors do.}

16 Jul 2018 11:06:10
Agree with Flash. Gains like diet don't cost the club 10s of millions for minimum gains. Taking a ' slightly better than what we have ' approach will be expensive for potentially very little gain.